#queer book club

[black-academia]

Hello! I just wanted to share some potential reads for Session II of the Black Academia Book Club! We will be discussing Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla on our first meeting on November 5th, 2022 at 5PM EST. The sign-up form is still open here, and you don't have to commit to every meeting; just show up for as many meetings as you would like! After signing up, there will be a welcome email sent to you with information for voting on books we will actually read together... but feel free to send an ask, or DM me, if you have any questions!

Sincerely, Sai 🖤

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

💙💜💖 Bi Books Coming Out February 2024

💖💜💙 Do you know what we could always use a little more of? Bi books! Here are a few coming out in February that would make fabulous additions to your never-ending TBR! Happy reading!

💖 In Plain Sight by Siobhan Muir 💜 Big Date Energy by Bethany Rutter 💙 Wine Ghost Goes to Hell by Sage Coffey 💖 Disciples of Chaos by M.K. Lobb 💜 Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops 💙 Rupture in Total Eclipse by Sem Thornwood 💖 King Cheer by Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm, Jamie Green 💜 Master and Favorite by Rachel Cherry 💙 Hannah Tate, Beyond Repair by Laura Piper Lee 💖 A Vicious Game by Melissa Blair 💜 It's Ours to Write by Blanche Maze 💙 Projections by S.E. Porter 💖 The Girl, the Ring, & the Baseball Bat by Camille Gomera-Tavarez 💜 Witch Boyfriend Wanted by Colette Rivera 💙 Tune Me Up by Renée Dahlia 💖 Cloti's Song by Dani Finn 💜 Prove It by Stephanie Hoyt 💙 Mewing by Chloe Spencer 💖 Snowed In With Summer by Tiana Warner 💜 Green Dot by Madeline Gray 💙 Falling For You by Mariah Ankenman 💖 Breaks by Emma Vieceli, Malin Rydén 💜 Signals by Nika 💙 Mortgage of Convenience by Dani McLean 💖 Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner 💜 The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett 💙 An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson 💖 Truthfully, Yours by Caden Armstrong 💜 The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton 💙 The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett 💖 Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos 💜 Letters to Her Love by Katherine Grant 💙 We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller 💖 Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan 💜 You Had Me at Merlot by Melissa Brayden 💙 Redsight by Meredith Mooring

[b-a-pigeon]

Interest check: would any of you all participate in an online queer SFF book club??

Fell & I have discussed this as an option for our (inactive & mostly empty) Discord server that we made for readers/patrons and I will actually start organizing if we get any interest!! Interact with this post or I guess just join the server now & I'll make it happen if enough people seem down :)

[hiddenbookcasepodcast]

It’s Disability Pride Month, and we’re chatting Hannah Kaner’s Godkiller with @IndiaReadsALot! Let’s talk mother-daughter dynamics, middle child syndrome, and murderous women 🦌🔥⚔️

Listen now on Spotify or find us wherever you get your podcasts.

Transcripts available on our website. Closed captions available on our YouTube.

[godzilla-reads]

Last minute “I want to go to that book club so I gotta speed-read the book in a week” moment.

I figured that if I read 30-pages a day, then I’ll be able to finish this book by the time the Queer Book Club meets in November. Fingers crossed that I don’t get sidetracked 🤞

📖 Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America by Gregory D. Smithers

[lavendershowcase]

Join us Sunday, February 18th when we discuss Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer's Less!

Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. QUESTION How do you arrange to skip town? ANSWER You accept them all. What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last. Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.

You can view any potential content warnings (and other info) on Storygraph for our books before you decide to join our monthly discussion!

The Lavender Book Club is a chill, queer, online book club run through text chat on Discord and through this blog. If you're interested in joining the server, the link is here. Follow this blog for updates on the club and our other activities!

[biggayenergypod]

A sneak peek of yesterday's interview with Meryl Wilsner! Want to hear more? Check out the links below to watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts 💜

[mogai-sunflowers]

im currently reading a wonderful book about this history of gender across cultures! I highly recommend it if you’re looking to broaden/intersectionalize your mindsets! https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/before-we-were-trans-dr-kit-heyam-phd/1140863854?ean=9781541603080

@makingqueerhistory @wearequeer-andwearehere @queerasfact

[lgbtqiamediaclub]

Happy Pride Month everyone! This month for the Queer Book Club we are reading Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell! It’s not too late to join us on discord here 

[rainydaypaperback]

Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. It's hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated, Jake can see the dead. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time.

Most are harmless. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again, they don't interact often with people. But then Jake meets Sawyer. A troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, he has plans for his afterlife–plans that include Jake.

Suddenly, everything Jake knows about ghosts and the rules to life itself go out the window as Sawyer begins haunting him and bodies turn up in his neighborhood. High school soon becomes a survival game–one Jake is not sure he's going to win.

Text based bookclub via Bethel CT. Pride's Discord.

[bethelctpride]

January Online Book Club Pick!

The inspiring true story of a nice Jewish boy who left the Church of Scientology to become the lovely lady she is today

In the early 1970s, a boy from a Conservative Jewish family joined the Church of Scientology. In 1981, that boy officially left the movement and ultimately transitioned into a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman--and became a famous gender outlaw.

Gender theorist, performance artist, and author Kate Bornstein is set to change lives with her stunningly original memoir. Wickedly funny and disarmingly honest, this is Bornstein's most intimate book yet, encompassing her early childhood and adolescence, college at Brown, a life in the theater, three marriages and fatherhood, the Scientology hierarchy, transsexual life, LGBTQ politics, and life on the road as a sought-after speaker.

Book club online January 20th-21st via Discord text chat. It's stretched across two days so you can dip in whenever you have time. Yell about the book at 1an like a gremlin. Message us for an invite to the Discord.

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[black-academia]

Hello 🖤 Anyone interested in a dark academia literature book club this summer? I checked out a bunch of literary / dark academia books from the library... and now I need to have feverish, intelligent discussions about them with strangers.

It'll be pretty fast paced; a book a week, meeting every week, but they'll all be under 350 pages. First meeting will be July 9th/10th.

Books will be chosen this week. The roster will, of course, include (maybe even center) books by queer authors and authors of color. The only requirements are that the books must be literary, well-written, and draw heavily on/reference the classics or literature (or be classic literature).

We'll keep notes, writing in the margins of secondhand books, or on post-its in library books, and then share our thoughts as a group on Zoom (camera optional). I'll moderate with questions, and time-keeping (if necessary). We'll also have prompts and things to look out for, in case anyone isn't used to close readings and annotation.

We might read The Canon; i.e. the dark academia bible that is Donna Tartt's The Secret History... probably over two weeks at the end of the session and then critique it as well.

I will put together a booklist of potential reads and find the best way for people to vote on what to read over the month. I can also link to guides on close reading and annotation, if anyone would like me to.

It would be great (but not mandatory!) if participants each donate like $5. If we have enough interest this will go towards my getting a Zoom license. However, this donation is 100% unnecessary and just a suggestion.

I've named us the BelleTriste Book Club, because (as anyone who has followed me for a while knows) I'm a sucker for puns.

I just thought it up, but I wouldn't be surprised if the joke has been made before. It's a play on "belletrist" (originally a German word, coined by Goethe, basically means person of "belle-lettres" i.e. a learned person of fine literature) and the french adjectives "belle" (meaning beautiful) and triste (meaning sad). What better term for a group of beautifully minded people, obsessed with beauty, and too often sad.

Also, the adjective "belletristic" can describe something pertaining to literature, BUT can also mean something appreciated more for its aesthetics rather than its content... because who are we if not semi-ironic, mostly-self-aware, and fully-self-critical belletrists... : )

You may sign up on the google form here!

All my love,

Sai 🖤

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

Hello, my lovely bookish bats. I'm searching for queer bookish accounts. Please like or reblog or follow so that I can follow you back!

[gaybookcoven]

Kaylene and Claire discuss The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

*Our next book will be The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar

Kiran Millwood Hargrave on the real women of the Vardø witch trials

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[hiddenbookcasepodcast]

Spring is on the horizon, so it's time to share our spring reading list! 🌷💐🌷 We're slowing down for a while, with episodes releasing once monthly rather than fortnightly- so rather than monthly themes, we'll be having seasonal themes. We're starting with sequel Spring!

In February, we'll be starting things off with an ending- namely A Power Unbound, the conclusion of @fahye's enchanting historical fantasy trilogy, The Last Binding! 🌳✨🌲

Then, in March, we're welcoming back he incomparable @IndiaReadsALot to talk all things Sunbringer- book two in Hannah Kaner's stunning fantasy series Godkiller! 🔱🌊☀️

Finally, in April, we'll be returning to UNC Chapel Hill and chatting about Bloodmarked, book two of Tracy Deonn's magical YA dark academia series The Legendborn Cycle 🔥⚔️👑

If you want to grab a copy of one of these books ahead of the episode, support indie bookshops and help out the show all at the same time, you can buy through our Bookshop.Org pages at the links below! 📚💕

🇬🇧 UK Link 🇺🇸 US Link

[lavendershowcase]

December's read will be She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She's always lied to fit in, so if she's straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, she can get out with the college money he promised. But the house has other plans. Night after night, Jade wakes up paralyzed. The walls exude a thrumming sound while bugs leave their legs and feelers in places they don't belong. She finds curious traces of her ancestors in the gardens they once tended. And at night Jade can't ignore the ghost of the beautiful bride who leaves cryptic warnings: Don't eat. Neither Ba nor her sweet sister Lily believe that there is anything strange happening. With help from a delinquent girl, Jade will prove this house--the home they have always wanted--will not rest until it destroys them. Maybe, this time, she can keep her family together. As she roots out the house's rot, she must also face the truth of who she is and who she must become to save them all.

You can join our Discord server here.

And you can read more about the Lavender Book Club here.

December's meeting will begin Sunday the 17th.